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e swiftly; especially, to move as if driven forward by something. The first nautilus that scudded upon the glassy surface of warm primeval oceans. I. Taylor. The wind was high; the vast white clouds scudded over the blue heaven. Beaconsfield.

To run hastily; to hurry; to scuttle.

A silver coin, and money of account, used in Italy and Sicily, varying in value, in different parts, but worth about 4 shillings sterling, or about 96 cents; also, a gold coin worth about the same.

Mass of clouds; cloudiness. [R.] A scudding cloudage of shapes. Coleridge.

y the ancients to indicate the coming of rainy weather when they rose with the sun. Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyaned Vext the dim sea. Tennyson.

capable of being written upon, as a slate; -- said especially of a certain kind of globe. Scudamore.

k of anything, as upon the back of a leaf or sheet already written upon on one side. [R.] Scudamore.

peso, or peso duro) is of about the value of the American dollar. The Italian piaster, or scudo, was worth from 80 to 100 cents. The Turkish and Egyptian piasters are now worth about four and a half cents.

To run with affected precipitation; to hurry; to bustle; to scuddle. With the first dawn of day, old Janet was scuttling about the house to wake the baron. Sir W. Scott.

Room or space at sea for a vessel to maneuver, drive, or scud, without peril of running ashore or aground. Totten.

To scour; to scud; to run. [Archaic]

o be driven before the wind without any sail, or with only a part of the sails spread; to scud under bare poles. [Written also spoon.] When virtue spooms before a prosperous gale, My heaving wishes help to fill the sail. Dryden.